Bernard Stevens

WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO
Fantasia on Giles Farnaby's Dreame op.22
Five Inventions op.14
Theme and Variations op.2
Ballad no.1 op.17
Ballad no.2 op.42
Sonata in One Movement op.25

Florian Uhlig (piano)

WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO, PIANO (FOUR HANDS)
& TWO PIANOS (FOUR HANDS)
A Birthday Song
Fugato
Invention
Fugue 3
Fantasia on The Irish Ho-Hoane op.13
Barcarolle
Haymakers' Dance
The Mirror (Canon)
Square Dance
Aria
Introduction and Allegro op.29
Two Dances op.33
Fuga alla sarabanda
Nocturne on a note-row by Ronald Stevenson op.51
Elegiac Fugue on the name Geraldine'
Concertante for Two Pianos op.55

Michael Finnissy (piano),
Isabel Beyer & Harvey Dagul (piano duet)

Recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk
25-29 October 2004

"Once again Dutton puts the seeker of hidden treasures in the dustier corners of the twentieth-century British music greatly in its debt. Here are over two hours of (to me anyway) very unfamiliar piano music, by a composer who died in 1983, that I am glad to have discovered"
"Performances and presentation are of the highest standard."
"Florian Uhlig takes the whole of the first CD and is confronted by considerable virtuoso demands, brilliantly overcome."
"On the second disc, Michael Finnissy demonstrates sympathy and charm in a variety of shorter pieces, while Isobel Bayer and Harvey Dagul together take on the four-hand works."
Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review, March 2006

"Not the least of its attractions is the quality of the recording and the gorgeous, life-like piano, especially in the hands of Florian Uhlig. His liquid, crystalline tone seems ideally suited to [the] music ..."
"[I] welcome wholeheartedly this enterprising and illuminating collection."
Jeremy Nicholas, The Gramophone, August 2006

"... even the minor items are carefully wrought, and every piece in this very-well-played-and-recorded program rewards repeated hearing, leaving the listener with growing admiration for the composer's craftmanship, humanity, and depth of feeling. This is a splendid program that I will return to often for the solace of old-fashioned musical virtues shining forth in a dark age."
Dr Mark L Lehman, American Record Guide, November/December 2006

2 CD SET - CDLX 7160